'Doomed!' Trailer: The Untold Story of Our First Failed 'Fantastic Four' Movie

Back in 1994, over a decade before 20th Century Fox would produce what is now more commonly known as that awful Fantastic Four movie, B-movie schlock baron Roger Corman made his own attempt at bringing Marvel's famous superhero quartet to the screen. That went about as well as you'd think it would, appearing more like a Fantastic Four Live! traveling stage show than an actual movie, and to this day the film remains unreleased outside of the greasy guys selling bootlegs at shady comic convention booths. Doomed! is a talking-heads documentary aimed at getting the full story of how it all came to pass, and why this movie is so variously difficult to watch. Here's the trailer:

'Doomed!' Trailer: The Untold Story of Our First Failed 'Fantastic Four' Movie

\n\nBack in 1994, over a decade before 20th Century Fox would produce what is now more commonly known as that awful Fantastic Four movie, B-movie schlock baron Roger Corman made his own attempt at bringing Marvel's famous superhero quartet to the screen. That went about as well as you'd think it would, appearing more like a Fantastic Four Live! traveling stage show than an actual movie, and to this day the film remains unreleased outside of the greasy guys selling bootlegs at shady comic convention booths. Doomed! is a talking-heads documentary aimed at getting the full story of how it all came to pass, and why this movie is so variously difficult to watch. Here's the trailer: